North Yorkshire Restaurant Ordered to Cease Driving Diners Home

‘There’s no streetlights’: North Yorkshire restaurant told to stop driving diners home

Award-winning chef and husband ordered to stop offering lifts home from rurally located Hansom It was when people were bringing a change of shoes to walk home that a couple running an acclaimed restaurant in North Yorkshire thought: “Actually, why don’t we give you a lift?” But the arrangement, loved by customers, has fallen foul of the council, which has informed Ruth Hansom and her husband, Mark, that were in breach of the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1976. Continue read...

By Mark Brown North of England correspondent